Paul Newman Quotes
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
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The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
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If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
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People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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It's been a privilege to be here.
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Watching something is nothing like doing it.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
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Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.
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You only grow when you are alone.
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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.